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ZIZ006 The Spectator’s Malevolent Neutrality (08.06.2004)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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Adopting a Mask in Public Life

In 1950s social psychology develops endlessly the motive of how in public life we are all wearing masks adopting identities which conceal our true self's however wearing a mask can be or playing a role can be a strange thing sometimes more often than we tend to believe there is more truth in the mask than in what we assume to be our real self behind the mask. When we act a role my continuous idea is when somebody tells me oh I was just joking I was just acting that this is probably closer to the truth than so-called real self once let me make a simple mental experimentLet us pre-suppose that you are or rather since an aggressive imagine imagine seeing that I am an important tri-

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